A Match Made in Heaven

(Both leads are faithful + one-on-one romance + devoted husband + traditional historical romance + reborn into a household struggle + face-slapping revenge + marriage before love + husband chases his wife to win her back)

In her past life, her scheming cousin framed her and ruined her reputation. Her cousin's husband took her as a lowly concubine. After a difficult birth cost her child its life, he disfigured her with a branding iron and banished her to an estate, where cruel servants beat her to death. Her mother died trying to heal her face, and her younger brother died in prison after seeking justice for her. Her cousin destroyed the entire main branch of the family, poisoned her husband into paralysis, carried on an affair, and used her son to rise in status. She became a countess, lived surrounded by children and grandchildren, and died peacefully of old age.

Reborn, Jiang Wan is forced to jump into a lake to escape her cousin's schemes, and unexpectedly saves Gu Huai, who has been bound and left to drown. The Gu family sends betrothal gifts and asks to marry Jiang Wan, but for the sake of family prestige, the Jiang family breaks the engagement and forces her to marry Gu Huai.

Everyone believes Jiang Wan resorted to every means to force Gu Huai to marry her, and the Gu family lets the rumor stand. People look down on her outside the home, her husband neglects her, and the Gu family makes life difficult for her. But at least she is still alive. She does her best to manage relations between the Gu and Jiang families and change her family's fate.

A year later, she offers to take a concubine for her husband, only to be firmly refused. As her medical skills improve, Jiang Wan discovers that Gu Huai, the unparalleled young nobleman of the capital, is not naturally aloof or uninterested in women. He is incapable of consummating a marriage!

In the Great Chu Dynasty, those suffering from serious illnesses cannot hold office. To keep Jiang Wan quiet, Gu Huai arranges for her younger brother to study under a renowned master and stands up for her mother. Deeply grateful, Jiang Wan devotes herself to medicine, and three years later, finally cures Gu Huai's secret ailment.

Jiang Wan asks to leave the marriage, but Gu Huai refuses to let her go.

[Note: The heroine is a native of this world. The pacing is on the slow side, and she gradually grows stronger. If that's not your thing, give this a miss!]